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More Sleepless Nights For Elizabeth Drew
Last night Stacy Keach completed his run as RN in Frost/Nixon at LA's Ahmanson Theatre, triumphantly fighting back, in the best Nixonian tradition, to retake the stage after being hospitalized for a week by a mild stroke. Tomorrow through Sunday, he appears with the...
Shameful, Shameless, and Still In Charge
Back in the day it was a truism that you knew an issue or a subject had reached critical mass (and that you were really in trouble) when it started turning up in Johnny Carson's monolog. This was certainly the case with Watergate. Jay Leno, in his wildest dreams,...
An Unusual Title For An Article
Among the more provocative article titles of recent days is the following: PROBLEMS OF EXISTENCE: BEING GAY, FEMALE, OR NIXON
Tuck
You may have thought Dick Tuck was dead, but he is alive and the guest of honor at an Aspen party. In an interview with Frank Gannon, RN once said: I've been the victim of dirty tricks, including bugging i--in 1962. There was no question about that. There's a very...
Two New Books On Hiss-Chambers
May 31 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Alger Hiss's first trial for perjury, during which the onetime advisor to FDR at Yalta and secretary-general of the founding session of the United Nations in 1945 managed to secure a hung jury, thanks to an all-out...
Stacy Keach Returns As RN
The Los Angeles Times reports today that actor Stacy Keach, having recovered from a mild stroke that disrupted his run in Frost/Nixon at LA's Ahmanson Theatre, will resume his role as President Nixon on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights to conclude this engagement...
Presidents And Autobiography
This morning Hillel Italie, the Associated Press's man in the book world, takes a look at the genre of the Presidential memoir, in the wake of the deal former President George W. Bush made with Crown this month for his Decision Points. Italie is usually a reliable...
Mixologist-In-Chief
The Daily Princetonian published an article today about the imminent departure of Jim Kelly (a member of Princeton's Class of '76) as Time's managing editor. In the course of reminiscing about his long career with the magazine, Kelly recounts this story: On one...
A Visit To The Crater
The Everett, Washington Herald today has an interview with RN's brother Ed Nixon concerning his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait. In the article, Ed explains that it was partly thanks to his famed elder sibling that he developed an interest in the field in which...
Bowling For Atonement
The one truly embarrassing moment in President Obama's sit-down with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show came when Jay asked the Chief Executive if he had followed through on his promise, often articulated on the campaign trail, to replace the bowling lane installed at...